ku # 580 ~ Spring has sprung # 9

Sunlight here and there • click to embiggenConsider this:

Photographs are evidence, after all. Not that they are to be taken at face value, necessarily, nor that they mirror the real, nor even that a photograph offers any self-evident relationship between itself and what it shows. Simply that a photograph can be material for interpretation - evidence, in that sense: to be solved, like a riddle; read and decoded, like clues left behind at the scene of a crime. Evidence of this sort, though, can conceal even as it purports to reveal, what it is evidence of. A photograph can certainly throw you off the scent ... In order to show what it is evidence of, a photograph must always point away from itself. Annette Kuhn - from the essay, Remebrance - The child I never was